Let me put it this way: If WotC adopted these frames, I would honestly consider selling everything I own in attempts to collect foil versions of everything.
...anyway. Amazing frames. The only problem I have with them is the expansion symbol. I would prefer it to be at the very bottom left of the card, right next to the artist credit. I don't want the symbol to just be on the typeline (I've always felt that was a mistake made early on in Magic's history that now can't be fixed), and having it in the place you've put it I'm not too sure I like how it interacts with the art.
Aside from that: Font's are good choices, multicoloured lines and some awesome background textures just make this feel more like a real Magic frame than anything I've seen before.
I've added a tribute to my sig, that's about all I could think of doing.
I'll miss him. Least of all for the great work he did in the Fantasy Art for Card Creation thread. I've spent many an hour killing bandwitdh admiring everything he did for MtGSally.
(Ironically my sig pic seems to fit, even though I made it last year...)
I can't explain why I like it, it just "feels" like a better border for the art box. I think its because you have the mana cost crossing it, therefore its not such a "hard" edge as the rest of the frame.
(Also, am I correct in assuming you intend to array the power/toughness vertically to the left of the textbox? I can't imagine where the copywrite/set number would go.)
The second frame in the first post (Angel of Salvation and Jaya) would be an amazing extended art frame. However, for a "normal" version of the frame, I would suggest two minor alterations.
1) Get rid of the transparency. This enables you to apply a texture to the frame (instead of just a colour) without it clashing with the artwork. Maybe as an example redo Jaya with that texture used in the two Kamahl frames in your second post?
2) Extend the text box all the way to the edges of the card. The attached image (hopefully) shows how I feel this should be done. Maybe even possibly flatten the type box? (extensions shown in red. Excuse my shoddy Paint skills)
Ancestral Recall
Blaze of Glory
Dark Ritual
Lightning Bolt
Giant Growth
Black Lotus
Glimpse the Unthinkable
The theme is the original cycle of 1cc instants in First Edition, or at the very least have 1cc in general.
P.S. Has anybody else noticed how well the card type symbols match this frame? It's almost like they were designed to go together. And having the colour symbol in the corner would be useful in some kind of "landless" format where cards become lands.
The biggest problem I see with this is the sheer scope of it all. Can you imagine trying to fit arcane magic, divine magic, shadow magic, pact magic, truename magic, psionics, node magic, combat stances, and incarnum all into five colors in one block?
And then inevitably fans would create their own sets based on third-party supplements, like Iron Kingdoms, DragonMech, or The Book of Erotic Fantasy :o.
Magic already has most of the core D&D races and classes as creature types, and personally I'm not missing Bard, Gnome or Drow at all. I'm pretty sure we can even squeeze in Beholders as Eyes. Possibly give them protection from sorceries and instants to mimic the anti-magic eye?
There's a (very minor) mistake in the answer to the sixth question (about the Commandeered Delay):
Quote from Binary »
So regardless of who controls the Delay, it's the spell's owner (the player who started the spell with that game in his/her deck) that will play the spell when the last time counter is removed.
should be
So regardless of who controls the Delay, it's the spell's owner (the player who started the game with that spell in his/her deck) that will play the spell when the last time counter is removed.
Apart from that, great article as always. I especially liked the narrative style for the first question about the animated land. (Who says rules questions have to be boring?)
'Possibly there would be some kind of spoilers or something next week, an "onslaught" of new info', is what first went through my head, but then I saw this yesterday:
Quote from Mike Flores on Thursday »
The Onslaught doesn't begin this week...
Why is "Onslaught" capitalised? Is this a hint that next week's theme will be the Onslaught set/block?
Just made this in Magic Set Editor. Artwork looks a little squashed.
NOTE: I'm only guessing the casting cost. Unless one of the many rumourmongers around here wants to correct me, I'm going to assume that it just costs W.
•Tribe/affiliation becoming more important than colour
•Players having power and toughness
•System more combat-focused, but no trample, first strike, or protection
•Setting based on another product line, possibly in a different format
remember that MaRo's article is appearing friday this week....could be special
MaRo's article is meant to appear next Monday:
Quote from MaRo on Monday, May 21, 2007 »
Next week is Memorial Day—an American holiday, for my non-American readers—and magicthegathering.com won't be updating. There will be a cool theme week, though, which I'm going to pick up the Monday after.
So, any massive spoilers that our one true lord MaRo has for us (and anything that could possibly prove Arcian correct) should be up on Monday.
<<EDIT>> Don't take my post to mean that there will be Lorwyn stuff on monday. Knowing MaRo, it's probably going to be about "writing and creating cards around a set theme" or something just as banal just to screw with us. All I'm saying is that monday is (in my so very humble opinion) the last chance for all the Arcian apologists out there.
...anyway. Amazing frames. The only problem I have with them is the expansion symbol. I would prefer it to be at the very bottom left of the card, right next to the artist credit. I don't want the symbol to just be on the typeline (I've always felt that was a mistake made early on in Magic's history that now can't be fixed), and having it in the place you've put it I'm not too sure I like how it interacts with the art.
Aside from that: Font's are good choices, multicoloured lines and some awesome background textures just make this feel more like a real Magic frame than anything I've seen before.
Keep up the good work!
I'll miss him. Least of all for the great work he did in the Fantasy Art for Card Creation thread. I've spent many an hour killing bandwitdh admiring everything he did for MtGSally.
(Ironically my sig pic seems to fit, even though I made it last year...)
I can't explain why I like it, it just "feels" like a better border for the art box. I think its because you have the mana cost crossing it, therefore its not such a "hard" edge as the rest of the frame.
(Also, am I correct in assuming you intend to array the power/toughness vertically to the left of the textbox? I can't imagine where the copywrite/set number would go.)
The second frame in the first post (Angel of Salvation and Jaya) would be an amazing extended art frame. However, for a "normal" version of the frame, I would suggest two minor alterations.
1) Get rid of the transparency. This enables you to apply a texture to the frame (instead of just a colour) without it clashing with the artwork. Maybe as an example redo Jaya with that texture used in the two Kamahl frames in your second post?
2) Extend the text box all the way to the edges of the card. The attached image (hopefully) shows how I feel this should be done. Maybe even possibly flatten the type box? (extensions shown in red. Excuse my shoddy Paint skills)
Blaze of Glory
Dark Ritual
Lightning Bolt
Giant Growth
Black Lotus
Glimpse the Unthinkable
The theme is the original cycle of 1cc instants in First Edition, or at the very least have 1cc in general.
P.S. Has anybody else noticed how well the card type symbols match this frame? It's almost like they were designed to go together. And having the colour symbol in the corner would be useful in some kind of "landless" format where cards become lands.
Of course I liek Mudkipz, but a cat is fine too.
And then inevitably fans would create their own sets based on third-party supplements, like Iron Kingdoms, DragonMech, or The Book of Erotic Fantasy :o.
Magic already has most of the core D&D races and classes as creature types, and personally I'm not missing Bard, Gnome or Drow at all. I'm pretty sure we can even squeeze in Beholders as Eyes. Possibly give them protection from sorceries and instants to mimic the anti-magic eye?
should be
Apart from that, great article as always. I especially liked the narrative style for the first question about the animated land. (Who says rules questions have to be boring?)
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I first saw this from MaRo's article on Monday:
'Possibly there would be some kind of spoilers or something next week, an "onslaught" of new info', is what first went through my head, but then I saw this yesterday:
Why is "Onslaught" capitalised? Is this a hint that next week's theme will be the Onslaught set/block?
Discuss
If I figure out how to import expansion symbols into MSE while this thread is still alive, I just might.
NOTE: I'm only guessing the casting cost. Unless one of the many rumourmongers around here wants to correct me, I'm going to assume that it just costs W.
EDIT: Thanks Teppic. Artwork credit added.
•Players having power and toughness
•System more combat-focused, but no trample, first strike, or protection
•Setting based on another product line, possibly in a different format
...so you're saying that Magic will become WoW?
Sweet. Maybe they can do a crossover set!
MaRo's article is meant to appear next Monday:
So, any massive spoilers that our one true lord MaRo has for us (and anything that could possibly prove Arcian correct) should be up on Monday.
<<EDIT>> Don't take my post to mean that there will be Lorwyn stuff on monday. Knowing MaRo, it's probably going to be about "writing and creating cards around a set theme" or something just as banal just to screw with us. All I'm saying is that monday is (in my so very humble opinion) the last chance for all the Arcian apologists out there.
If this is true, damn that's a good card. Seriously, an Island that can't be targeted? Is there any other way to make blue better than red?
This also means a return of the Veldalken. Possibly they are the new "quintessential" blue creature type.
This week just keeps on getting better for me.